As 42 million Americans lost their federal food stamps thanks to a government shutdown, US President Donald Trump celebrated Halloween with a garish Roaring ’20s-themed party at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

A Little Party Never Killed Nobody was the official theme of the soiree, named after the Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie’s song used in the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s artless 2013 adaptation of The Great Gatsby. The gathering was further proof that the whole point of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel soared over the heads of the MAGA crowd.

The champagne-blurred snaps that have trickled through social media in the days since reveal........

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